Jose Mujica Quotes

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• I've seen some springs that ended up being terrible winters. We human beings are gregarious. We can't live alone. For our lives to be possible,…
• It has always been like that with changes. In 1913, we established divorce as a right for women in Uruguay. You know what they were…
• We have sacrificed the old immaterial gods, and now we are occupying the temple of the Market-God. He organizes our economy, our politics, our habits,…
• It seems that we have been born only to consume and to consume, and when we can no longer consume, we have a feeling of…
• We can almost recycle everything now. If we lived within our means, by being prudent, the 7 billion people in the world could have everything…
• We applied a very simple principle: Recognize the facts. Abortion is old as the world. Gay marriage, please - it's older than the world. We…
• From afar, it seems like a war without a solution and like a long sacrifice for the entire country. So when a president appears who…
• Help does not mean to intervene. I will not meddle if I am not invited to do so. But if I can serve as a…
• As soon as politicians start climbing up the ladder, they suddenly become kings. I don't know how it works, but what I do know is…
• Businesses just want to increase their profits; it's up to the government to make sure they distribute enough of those profits so workers have the…
• What's sad is that an 80-year-old grandpa has to be the open-minded one. Old people aren't old because of their age, but because of what's…
• Worse that drugs is drug trafficking. Much worse. Drugs are a disease, and I don't think that there are good drugs or that marijuana is…
• I'm not the poorest president. The poorest is the one who needs a lot to live. My lifestyle is a consequence of my wounds. I'm…
• I have a way of life that I don't change just because I am a president. I earn more than I need, even if it's…
• My goal is to achieve a little less injustice in Uruguay, to help the most vulnerable and to leave behind a political way of thinking,…
• A president is a high-level official who is elected to carry out a function. He is not a king, not a god. He is not…
• To live in accordance with how one thinks. Be yourself and don't try to impose your criteria on the rest. I don't expect others to…
• I can live well with what I have.I’m called ‘the poorest president’, but I don’t feel poor. Poor people are those who only work to…
• My definition of poor are those who need too much. Because those who need too much are never satisfied.
• I may appear to be an eccentric old man... But this is a free choice.

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